Bloody Chamber

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The bloody chamber page 1 The young girls sexual awakening through phallic imagery
“delicious ecstasy … burning cheek… my heart mimicking that of a great pistons ceaselessly thrusting“
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TBC page1 The Young Girl’s transformation
“I had, in some way, ceased to be her child in becoming his wife”
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TBC page 1 Description of the mother
“My eagle-featured, indomitable mother.”
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TBC page 2 The Marquis
“ His kiss, his kiss with tongue and teeth in it and a rasp of his beard,… dark, leonine shape of his head and his nostrils caught a whiff of the opulent male scent of leather,… seemed to me like a mask,…he seemed to me like a lily”
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TBC page 4 The Girl’s immaturity
“I was seventeen and knew nothing of the world, … He was older than I. He was much older than I.”
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TBC page5 The Marquis danger for the young girl
“He had invited me to join this gallery of beautiful woman, … his wedding gift, classed round my throat. A choker of rubies… like an extraordinarily precious slit throat…carnal avarice… had exiled myself into marriage, into exile.”
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TBC page 8 Setting
“A landscape of misty pastels … faiery solitude… misty blue… spiked gates… luminous, murmurous castle… gargoyles carved… white cause curtains… many mirrors!.... more white lilies… spiral staircase.”
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TBC page11 The Marquis dominating sexually.
“And when nothing but my scarlet, palpitating core remained… bare as a lamb chop… at once he closed my legs like a book… he smiled.”
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TBC page 12 Links to ****** literature and Sadomasocism
“Huysmanas’s La-bas… the secret of Pandora’s box… ‘My little nun has found my prayer books, has she’? ‘ “
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TBC page 14 the young girl losing her virginity
“Made me shudder… a dozen husbands impale a dozen brides while mewing gulls swing on invisible trapezes in the empty air outside… I had bled… yet I had been infinitely dishevelled by the loss of my virginity.”
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TBC page 14 The Marquis’ reaction to sexual intimacy
“I have seen his deadly composure shatter like a porcelain vase flung against a wall; I had heard him shriek and blaspheme me at the ******… it looked like an embalming parlour… my child did it hurt her?”
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TBC page 14 the Girl’s lust and loath for the marquis
“The one who had inflicted the pain could comfort me… I seamed reborn in his unreflected eyes… I longed for him. And he disgusted me… by desirous dread.”
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TBC page 16 The keys
“Slowly yet teasingly, as if you were a child a great mysterious treat, he took out a bunch of keys…of a prison warden… dungeons… ‘not the key to my heart. Rather the key to my enfer “
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TBC page18 first description of the bloody chamber
“at the end of a dark corridor full of horrid corridor… to savour the rare pleasure of imagining myself wifeless”
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TBC page 21 The Girl’s temptation to going into the chamber
“I could contain myself no longer… I felt the exhilaration of an explorer… I was determined… for evidence of my husband’s true nature… but I still wanted to know more.”
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TBC page 24 ‘Typical Transylvania Scene - Midnight, All Hollows.’
“The supreme and unique pleasure of love is the certainty that one is doing evil.”
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TBC page 25 The Young Girl entering the chamber
“A long winding corridor, as if I were in the viscera of the castle… barred with black iron a cold ecstasy … this stark torture chamber.”
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TBC page 27 The Girl finding the first wife
“The centre of the room laid a catafalque…. The opera singer lay quite naked… he had embalmed her… the blue imprint of his strangler’s fingers… dead lips smiled.”
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TBC page 27 The Girl finding the second wife
“ A skull, so utterly denuded, now, of flesh… was strung up by a system of unseen cords, so that it appeared to hang, disembodied… crowned with a wreath of white roses, and a veil of lace.”
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TBC page 28 The Girl finding the 3 wife
“The metal shell of the Iron maiden emitted a ghostly twang… sculpted face caught in a rictus of pain… she was pierced not by one but by a hundred spikes.”
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TBC page 28 The Young Girls reaction
“Trembling fingers… sobbing that contained both pity for his other victims and also a dreadful anguish to know that I, too was one of them… I did not trust …they were all his creatures, all. “
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TBC page 29 The Girls realisation of her impending doom
“I ran to the telephone; and the line, of cause was dead, dead as his wives…. Thick darkness, unlit by any star… seamed still to encroach on me… the night like a permeable substance that could seek into my skin… private slaughter house of his.”
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TBC page 30 the young girl meeting Jean-Yves
“Not the massive, Irredeemable bulk… slight, stooping figure… he looked far more terrified than me… he was full of the loquacity of embarrassment"
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TBC page 30 Jean-Yves' smile
"he smiled a little… though they were bling his eyes were singularly sweet … the most touchingly ingenuous smile… “
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TBC page31 Jean-Yves kindness
“his lovely, blind humanity… no bride should suffer so much , so early in her marriage… so I told him everything”
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TBC page33 The Key’s stain
“The key was still caked with wet blood… the bloody token stuck… the more I scrubbed the key the more vivid grew the stain. The more I scrubbed the key the more vivid grew the stain.”
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TBC page 33 The Marquis return
“Stripped off all my clothes… most treacherous, lascivious tenderness… lost, as the victim loses to the executioner… he half-snarled…. A stench of absolute despair rank and ghastly”
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TBC page 35 The Girl’s submission to the Marquis
“If I loved him enough to follow him, I should have to die… his game of love and death… then he sharply ordered: ‘kneel!’”
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TBC page 26 The mark of Cain
“Kneel before him and he pressed the key lightly to my forehead… the hart shaped stain had transferred itself… the mark of Cain “
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TBC page 36 The Young Girl’s sacrifice
“Prepare yourself for martyrdom… go and bathe yourself… the lustratory ritual and the ceremony robing; after that the sacrifice… I had scrubbed the key but the red mark would not go away.. I knew I should wear it until I die.”
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TBC page 37 Links to Adam and Eve
“Coiled like a snake about to strike, lay the ruby choker… you disobeyed him like Eve”
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TBC page 38 The piano teacher and the young girl
“My lover kissed me, he took my head. He would come with me if I would lead him. ‘Let the blind lead the blind, eh? “
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TBC page 38 The Young Girl’s mother
“She could ride hard and fast, a crazy, magnificent horse woman… you never saw such a world thing as my mother…. She raised my father’s gun, took aim and put a single, irreproachable bullet through my husband’s head”
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The Courtship Of Mr Lyon page 43 setting
“The snow possessed a light of its own… the sky darkened… unearthly reflected parlour… wrought iron gates… withered ghost of a tangle of thorns… reverberating clang… final emphatic, ominous…. A great warring as if a beast of pray."
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TCOML page 45 Reference to Alice in Wonderland
“a silver tag with the legend: Drink me… exhortation: Eat me”
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TCOML page 45 Blood and Meat
"thick-cut roast beef, still bloody."
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TCOML page 46 The Beast
"a mighty, furious roaring
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Card 2

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TBC page1 The Young Girl’s transformation

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“I had, in some way, ceased to be her child in becoming his wife”

Card 3

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TBC page 1 Description of the mother

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Card 4

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TBC page 2 The Marquis

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Card 5

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TBC page 4 The Girl’s immaturity

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